Scotia Place is an office tower complex in Edmonton

Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, Canada

Canada

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 that was completed in 1983. It is located at 10060 Jasper Avenue in the heart of Edmonton's Downtown

Downtown Edmonton

Downtown Edmonton is bounded by 109 Street to the west, 105 Avenue to the north, 97 Street to the east, 97 Avenue, 100 Avenue, and Rossdale Road to the south and Jasper Avenue to the southeast , though many people consider part or all of the surrounding neighborhoods to be part of downtown...

. It is home to several long term tenants such as Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton

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, APEGGA, Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young

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 and Edmonton Transit

Edmonton Transit System

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. The namesake of the complex is Scotiabank

Scotiabank

The Bank of Nova Scotia , commonly known as Scotiabank , is the third largest bank in Canada by deposits and market capitalization. It serves some 18.6 million customers in more than 50 countries around the world and offers a broad range of products and services including personal, commercial,...

.

Towers

The highest skyscraper

Skyscraper

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 in the complex is Scotia 1, with 28 floors and reaching 113 m (370.7 ft).

Tower	Floors	Height	Built
1	28	113 m (370.7 ft)	1982
2	21	88 m (288.7 ft)	1983

Pedway

Edmonton's extensive Pedway system

Edmonton Pedway

The Edmonton Pedway system is a network connecting office buildings, shopping centres, and parkades in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It consists of approximately of year-round climate-controlled underground tunnels and walkways between the second floors of buildings approximately above...

 allows downtown visitors to travel indoors to avoid the extreme weather. Scotia Place is part of that pedway which is linked directly to both the Edmonton LRT system and Manulife Place

Manulife Place

Manulife Place is a highrise office building and shopping centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was completed in 1983 to the design by Clifford Lawrie Bolton Ritchie Architects. It is located at the corner of 102 Avenue and 101 Street....

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See also

• List of tallest buildings in Edmonton
• Tour Scotia
  Tour Scotia
  Tour Scotia is a skyscraper in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is 27 stories, and tall. It was designed by WZMH Architects and constructed in 1990. It was built in the postmodern architectural style, with granite and glass facades...
  
   in Montreal
  Montreal
  Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
  
  
• Scotia Plaza
  Scotia Plaza
  Scotia Plaza is a Postmodern commercial office complex in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The complex is situated in the financial district of the downtown core, and is generally bordered by Yonge Street on the east, King Street West on the south, Bay Street on the west, and Adelaide Street...
  
   in Toronto
  Toronto
  Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...